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Overworked health workers are “past the point of exhaustion”

Diana Duong, Lauren Vogel

2023Canadian Medical Association Journal42 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Health care workers logged more overtime in the second year of the pandemic than any time in the past decade. More than one in five health care workers logged overtime in 2021, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). On average, workers clocked 8.2 hours of paid overtime

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OvertimeHealth careMedicineHealth workerEnvironmental healthHealth servicesLabour economicsPolitical scienceLawEconomicsPopulationHealthcare Systems and ChallengesHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutGlobal Health Care Issues